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Home > Travel > Travel guides - sport 658 items Pages Cordee Books The Villain Book Don Whillans has an iconic significance for generations of climbers. His epoch-making first ascent of Annapurna's South Face, achieved with Dougal Haston in 1970, remains one of the most impressive climbs ever made - but behind this and all his other formidable achievements lies a tough, recalcitrant reality: the character of the man himself. Whillans carried within himself a sense of personal invincibility, forceful, direct and uncompromising. It gave him sporting superstar status - the flawed heroism of a Best, a McEnroe, an Ali. In his own circle, his image was the working-class hero on the rock-face, laconic and bellicose, ready to go to war with the elements or with any human who crossed his path on a bad day. Cordee Books This Game of Ghosts Book This Game of Ghosts by Joe Simpson, is a heartfelt description of one of Joe's most trecherous treks to the Himalayas. This Game of Ghosts describes the trip that almost broke and crippled Joe Simpson, and will have you so enthralled you won't want to put the book down. Cordee Books Touching The Void Touching the Void by Joe Simpson, is an account of the ascent of the 21,000ft Siula Grande peak in the Peruvian Andes. Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had achieved the summit before the first disaster struck. What happened and how they dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted is the subject of this book. Cordee Books Vertical Pleasure - Hardback Book Vertical Pleasure, Mick Fowler’s first set of climbing memoirs, published in 1995, is here reprinted in a revised edition. Beginning with the author’s early teenage years on easy British rock and Swiss 4000m peaks we follow him (and his mates) as they enthusiastically race through all aspects of British and alpine climbing. Cordee Books Ben Nevis-Coe British Mountain Map A strong, all weather map providing information on Ben Nevis-Coe range for hillwalkers and moutaineers. Cordee Books Alpine Essentials DVD Alpine Essentials dvd is a training film which shows the essential skills and techniques necessary for Alpine mountaineering and climbing. It follows two mountaineers on a multi day trip in the Swiss Alps. See how they cope with their environment and what steps they take to both enjoy the experience and return safely. The dvd contains a range of separate chapters which expand upon the topics covered in the film, including: glacier travel; crevasse rescue; moving together; abseiling; ice axes; crampons; via ferrata; using huts; clothing and equipment. Filmed in Switzerland in the summer of 2006 the skills covered are appropriate to all glaciated terrain. This instructional climbing film is produced jointly by the Mountaineering Council of Scotland and the British Mountaineering Council. Alpine Essentials dvd will educate and inspire all those wanting to go alpine climbing and mountaineering. The techniques described are relevant to people operating at all grades and the dvd is ideal for those taking their first steps in alpine terrain. 658 items Pages |
